Windows Movie Maker Won't Load Videos Properly/Melty

Hello! First time posting here, I believe. Anyway, I'm having problems with getting my Windows Movie Maker to work properly. All off the graphics inside of the frame become "melty" when I try to take any actions.

I've attached a screenshot of what happens.

This has also happened to my Microsoft Office Word, too, and I believe I had to change something to do with graphics, like the accelerator, but that fix hasn't worked for Windows Movie Maker.

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Hi Zowie, welcome to the forum! Can you post which computer your using? Make and model please Also can you explain a little more on what you changed in the graphics? Have you updated any drivers recently?

I have an HP Pavilion dv7 running Windows 7. I haven't changed anything about my graphics recently, and at least not around the time this started happening again (that I know of). This is just something that happens to my Windows applications every once in awhile, not sure why. This started happening several months ago, and I kept searching for ways to uninstall/reinstall instead, but I guess I can't actually do that? Or I need to install some sort of media bundle. Been looking for a fix for quite some time.

If you already running an anti-virus application can you post which one it is?

Try running something like Ccleaner to clean the system from temporary files and the like. Please do not use the registry cleaner part as Windows doesn't need it and it usually ends up causing issues.CCleaner - Free Download - Piriform

No, this just seems to happen randomly with my Microsoft programs. Or at least random to me. Recently I did have a bluescreen crash, with "Pfn_list_corrupt" as the problem, but it has been after the Movie Maker was messing up.

Would that be the AMD Catalyst Control Center, or the Intel Graphics and Media Control Panel? I have a "Graphics Properties" option.

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Don't know, but look through them and play with settings like "Acceleration", if it is on switch it off. Do it one by one, undo every change before going to the next one. You might find the solution. And the suggestion of Kemical sounds as a very good advice.

No other options appear when I try to re-install. It just says I have the newest version installed. Searching doesn't bring up any results. I can still go to "Turn Windows Features on and off" and flip it on and off, but it doesn't try reinstalling or anything. I tried a Windows Media Fixit, and now Movie Maker appears, but it gives me "The program can't start because WLXPhotobase.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix.". But I can't reinstall because it always thinks I already have essentials.